{"id":1849,"date":"2012-12-25T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2012-12-25T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T19:37:07","slug":"a-tale-of-two-karatekas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/a-tale-of-two-karatekas\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two Karatekas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karateka.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1851\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/a-tale-of-two-karatekas\/apple2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/apple2.png\" data-orig-size=\"530,290\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"apple2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/apple2-300x164.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/apple2.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1851 aligncenter\" alt=\"apple2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/apple2.png\" width=\"530\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/apple2.png 530w, https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/apple2-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/apple2-160x87.png 160w, https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/apple2-260x142.png 260w, https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/apple2-360x196.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some days ago, Jordan Mechner released a new version of Karateka for iOS. Karateka was the first game that used rotoscoping and the first one that offered a cinematic experience. Since he was a kid, Mechner wanted to make movies. He ended up creating games. In some ways, he&#8217;s history&#8217;s first multimedia director.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-JH47u8d1M4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1GB in 2 or 3 minutes. We live in the future.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the launch, Mechner also commissioned a video series on the developing process of this new version of Karateka. You can see how that fascination with cinematography really shines through in the Apple II and the iOS versions:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QDaFte42odA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks,\u00a0<a href=\"\/blog\/?p=1830\" target=\"_blank\">Freddy<\/a>. We sure played that one!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days ago, Jordan Mechner released a new version of Karateka for iOS. Karateka was the first game that used rotoscoping and the first one that offered a cinematic experience. Since he was a kid, Mechner wanted to make movies. He ended up creating games. In some ways, he&#8217;s history&#8217;s first multimedia director. 1GB in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/a-tale-of-two-karatekas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A tale of two Karatekas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tlzy-tP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1847,"url":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/una-historia-de-dos-karatekas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1849,"position":0},"title":"Una historia de dos Karatekas","author":"Daniel Pradilla","date":"25\/12\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Hace algunos d\u00c3\u00adas, Jordan Mechner liber\u00c3\u00b3 una nueva versi\u00c3\u00b3n de Karateka para iOS. 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